Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tory speakers, depressed by this possibility, last week devoted as much time to the agile Welshman as to their Socialist opponents. Bland, moonfaced Winston Churchill, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose modest suggestion of a fourpenny (8?) reduction in the tax on tea has been received by the electorate as very cold pie indeed compared to the Liberal mouth-watering promises of Lloyd George, was particularly bitter...
Finally last week the exhausted politicians arranged for parliament to elect as chancellor no one of their number, but a potent businessman, Dr. Ernst Streeruwitz, who in his youth was a smart cavalry officer of the Habsburg Imperial Guard. Such a choice will not long be stomached by the second largest Austrian party, the radical, devoutly Marxian "Social Democrats...
...stopgap chancellor, however, he should do very well since he is a Roman Catholic and enjoys the support of the largest faction in the republic, the reactionary, Catholic "Christian Socialists" who abhor the late Karl Marx (see p. 53) as though he were Beelzebub...
...crisis now ended was precipitated by the resignation as chancellor of tall, bald, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel (TIME, April 15), whom the Pope is expected shortly to elevate to the post of cardinal, a holy office considered incompatible with the mundane status of a prime minister...
...creeds and colors. Jerusalem's swart Arab Mayor Nashashibi spoke a few words in troubled English, thanked Donor Straus "for often having given to all people in Palestine help and comfort . . . thus creating friendship among Jerusalem's citizens." Great Britain's High Commissioner to Palestine, Sir John Robert Chancellor, spoke too, praised the Zionist movement which is in high favor in Great Britain...